JBA commends Ecobank Ghana *For building capacity for financial journalists

PRESIDENT of the Journalists for Business Advocacy JBA), Mr. Suleiman Mustapha, commended the Ecobank Ghana for the continuous support of building capacity for members of JBA in the areas of business and financial reporting for the past five years.

Consequently, Mr. Mustapha called on other corporate and state institutions and to pursue policies to build capacity for the media practitioners, in a particular financial and economic journalists in order to empower them to abreast the issues of the common concerns to the national economic development.

According to him, it is important for the corporate and state institutions to recognise the important roles journalists play in sensitising the public about policies and programmes nationwide.

Mr Mustapha, who doubles as the senior reporter of the Graphic Business made the foregoing call when he speaking at a two-day capacity training workshop provided by Ecobank Ghana Limited with support of the Bank of Ghana for the Journalists for Business Advocacy.

The two-day media sentisation event was
under the theme: “Understanding Ghana’s Financial Sector Reforms: The Role of the Journalists,” was organised by the Journalists for Business Advocacy, in Accra at the Ecobank New Head Office, from Wednesday, December 11 to Thursday, December 12 December 2019.

To buttress his point further, the seasoned journalist stressed that “It is important for us as Journalists to understand the issues at stake. If we don’t, we will be committing huge havoc on society. As conveyers of information, it is necessary to always update our skills to get the knowledge in the financial sector in order to report accurately, devoid of misreporting.

On the issue of JBA plans to help push the issues of common concerns to the national development, Mr. Mustapha indicated JBA’s commitment and readiness to group the country into four administrative zones in order to provide adequate news coverage for the six regions in the country, within the first quarter of 2020.

This initiative, he said was a collaborative effort JBA with support from Ecobank and BoG, primarily to help in building the capacity for financial and business journalists across the country to ensuring accurate reportage in the business and economics issues before, during after 2020 election.

Source: myafricatoday.net